tex updates?

Apologies for the lack of texlive' in the subject header, but slrn doesn't seem to be able to include the letter l’ in
the header!

This week, every day I have had >700 texlive updates after running `zypper up’ and of course they are the same packages
every day (and yes I am applying them every time). My repo list is pasted below. I was wondering whether this is just me
or others experiencing this strange behaviour?


sh-4.2$ sudo zypper lr -u
root's password:
#  | Alias                     | Name                               | Enabled | Refresh | URI
---+---------------------------+------------------------------------+---------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 | KDE_extra                 | KDE_extra                          | Yes     | Yes     |
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Extra/openSUSE_12.2/
2 | deltafox                  | deltafox                           | Yes     | Yes     |
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/deltafox/openSUSE_12.3/
3 | multimedia                | multimedia                         | Yes     | Yes     |
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/multimedia:/apps/openSUSE_12.3/
4 | nvidia                    | nvidia                             | Yes     | Yes     |
ftp://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/12.3/
5 | openSUSE-12.3-1.7         | openSUSE-12.3-1.7                  | Yes     | No      |
cd:///?devices=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-HL-DT-STDVD-RAM_GH22LP20,/dev/sr0
6 | oss                       | oss                                | Yes     | Yes     |
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/12.3/repo/oss/suse/
7 | packman_essentials        | packman_essentials                 | Yes     | Yes     |
http://packman.inode.at/suse/12.3/Essentials/
8 | packman_multmedia         | packman_multmedia                  | Yes     | Yes     |
http://packman.inode.at/suse/12.3/Multimedia/
9 | python                    | python                             | Yes     | Yes     |
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/python/openSUSE_12.3/
10 | repo-debug                | openSUSE-12.3-Debug                | No      | Yes     |
http://download.opensuse.org/debug/distribution/12.3/repo/oss/
11 | repo-debug-update         | openSUSE-12.3-Update-Debug         | No      | Yes     |
http://download.opensuse.org/debug/update/12.3/
12 | repo-debug-update-non-oss | openSUSE-12.3-Update-Debug-Non-Oss | No      | Yes     |
http://download.opensuse.org/debug/update/12.3-non-oss/
13 | repo-non-oss              | openSUSE-12.3-Non-Oss              | Yes     | Yes     |
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/12.3/repo/non-oss/
14 | repo-oss                  | openSUSE-12.3-Oss                  | Yes     | Yes     |
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/12.3/repo/oss/
15 | repo-source               | openSUSE-12.3-Source               | No      | Yes     |
http://download.opensuse.org/source/distribution/12.3/repo/oss/
16 | repo-update               | openSUSE-12.3-Update               | Yes     | Yes     |
http://download.opensuse.org/update/12.3/
17 | repo-update-non-oss       | openSUSE-12.3-Update-Non-Oss       | Yes     | Yes     |
http://download.opensuse.org/update/12.3-non-oss/
18 | science                   | science                            | Yes     | Yes     |
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/science/openSUSE_12.3/
19 | texlive                   | texlive                            | Yes     | Yes     |
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Publishing:/TeXLive/openSUSE_12.3/
20 | vlc                       | vlc                                | Yes     | Yes     |
http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/SuSE/12.2/
21 | wine                      | wine                               | Yes     | Yes     |
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Emulators:/Wine/openSUSE_12.3/
sh-4.2$

Strange.

I am not seeing any tex updates. And yes, I do have it installed.

Is it possible that your rpm database is corrupt?

(Edit): Sorry, I did not notice your list of repos. I only have the standard repos.

There are probably some packages being rebuilt only because dependencies require it. So you are probably installing cosmetic updates due to that.

On 05/08/2013 12:18 PM, flymail wrote:
> This week, every day I have had >700 texlive updates after running `zypper up’ and of course they are the same packages

every day (and yes I am applying them every time). My repo list is pasted below. I was wondering whether this is just me
or others experiencing this strange behaviour?

1 | KDE_extra | KDE_extra | Yes | Yes |
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Extra/openSUSE_12.2/

don’t know if this will help, but it can’t hurt: do not (ever) mix
the repos of one version with that of another…

that is, you have a lot of 12.3 repos, and one 12.2…

change that and maybe your problem goes away…if not, repost but
this time use


zypper lr -d

more: i’d recommend you read and follow the very sound advice in the
paragraph beginning with “IMPORTANT!” in this post:
http://tinyurl.com/33qc9vu

you might also find the problem goes away when you don’t have so many
sources in the grab bag…


dd
http://tinyurl.com/DD-Caveat

On 2013-05-08, dd <DenverD@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
> don’t know if this will help, but it can’t hurt: do not (ever) mix
> the repos of one version with that of another…

Thanks for spotting that - I was obviously remiss to not update my post-install script properly. None of the 12.2
hangovers provide texlive so I suspect that isn’t the cause. Nevertheless I will update them now.

<SNIP>
> more: i’d recommend you read and follow the very sound advice in the
> paragraph beginning with “IMPORTANT!” in this post:
> http://tinyurl.com/33qc9vu

Thanks for the link!

> you might also find the problem goes away when you don’t have so many
> sources in the grab bag…

I suspect that’s the most likely cause, and admit a strong need to prune the repo list!